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Inside the 2014 hack of a Saudi embassy

An attacker claiming to be ISIS took control of the official email account of the Saudi Embassy in the Netherlands in August, 2014. The attacker sent emails to more than a dozen embassies at The Hague demanding $50 million for ISIS or they would blow up a major diplomatic reception. An anonymous former Saudi Aramco employee who provided CSO with the internal embassy report reported on here came forward to tell her story on stage at BSides Las Vegas on August 7, and you can watch her presentation, The Road to Hell is Paved with Bad Passwords.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3386381/inside-the-2014-hack-of-a-saudi-embassy.html

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